Moshe Moskowitz 13 Killed In Crash; Mother In Critical Condition

The Baltimore Jewish Community is in mourning on Wednesday, as word spread about a tragic accident that left 13-year-old Moshe Moskowitz Z”L dead, and his mother in critical condition. 

Authorities say the crash happened at around 9:15PM on the northbound lanes of I-95 near the Intercounty Connector in Maryland. Highway officials say at least four vehicles, including a tractor trailer, were involved in the crash.

Investigators believe a black Honda Pilot became disabled in the roadway resulting in a collision with a Dodge Caravan and a tractor-trailer. A white Volkswagen was also involved.

Moshe Z”L, who was a passenger in the Dodge, was flown to Children’s Hospital where he R”L succumbed to his injuries. The driver of the Dodge, his mother – 45-year-old Tamara Moskowitz, was transported to Medstar in Washington, D.C. with life threatening injuries.

The driver and passenger of the Honda were both transported to Prince George’s Hospital Center with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver of the Volkswagen was not injured in the collision.

I-95 was closed for approximately five hours, with some closures extending in to the early morning hours Wednesday.

The cause of the accident is still being investigated at this time.

Misaskim was working with the Medical Examiner in Washington D.C. to ensure that the Niftar was being released in a timely fasion and working to ensure proper Kavod Haniftar.

Moshe Moskowitz Z”L is the son of Rabbi and Mrs. Doniel Moskowitz. Moshe was an 8th grader in Talmudic Academy in Baltimore – Where his father is a Rebbi.

He was the youngest rider in Bike4Chai this past summer. He biked the very difficult 170 mile bike ride along with his brother Naftali – raising more than $12,000 for the children of Camp SImcha.

Please be Mispallel for Tamar Adina bas Kayna Shulamis, who is in critical condition.

Levaya details will be published when they become available.

Levayah will take place tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 15, at Sol Levinson’s at 11AM.

Kevurah will be at the Agudah Cemetery in Rosedale.

Shiva will be observed at 7006 Wallis Ave, Baltimore, MD 21215

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Democrats will stick to denial even if means burning down the Republic

Democrats from the White House on down have now gone all-in on an absurd effort to use Russian hacking to delegitimize the Trump presidency.

“You didn’t need a security clearance to figure out who benefited from malicious Russian cyberactivity,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest, claiming Trump “called on Russia to hack” Hillary Clinton.

Yeah — in a joke aimed at Cinton’s national-security-endangering e-mail abuses.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid — the most free-ranging liar Washington’s seen in decades — flat-out charged the president-elect “was in on” Russian hacking of top Democrats’ e-mail.

Imagine: We now have Democrats hailing the CIA’s intelligence-gathering (which they’ve ridiculed for decades) and darkly accusing Moscow of infiltrating top US political circles and threatening the very fabric of American democracy. This is exactly what liberals used to call McCarthyism.

Never mind that, in the runup to the 2014 elections, Team Obama withheld news that Russia had hacked into both State Department and White House computers — then pooh-poohed any threat after it was disclosed.

The fact is, Russia has been cyberattacking US government agencies for years. It’s been public knowledge all along — as it was when hacking aimed at US politics was first disclosed in 2015. That the White House has only now gone into hyperdrive over this “dangerous” threat is the ultimate hypocrisy.

Did Moscow meddle in US politics this year? Probably (though it’d be nice to see public proof). Even President Obama admitted it’s been doing that “since the days of the Soviet Union.” Did that meddling toss the election to Trump? Of course not. Try to find anyone who was moved by the internal chatter at the Democratic National Committee to vote against Clinton.

No, the real story here is about a party in denial about the causes of its devastating defeat — which apparently would rather burn down the Republic than accept the truth.

Rav Mutzafi: One Shouldn’t Buy Tefilin From A Sofer Whose Wife Wears A Sheitel

HaGaon HaRav Bentzion Mutzafi Shlita in a Shu’t released which addresses one wearing a sheitel (פאה נכרית), the prominent Sephardi posek rules that one should not buy tefilin from a sofer whose wife wears a sheitel for in his view, it is tantamount to the wife being without a hair covering. The ruling is published in ‘גביע הכסף’, where a number of halachic questions are addressed.

The rav adds that if a Sephardi girl attends seminary in England and she is asked to wear a sheitel for a shidduch, she should not accept the shidduch. The rav was also asked regarding the psak of HaGaon Chacham Bentzion Abba Shaul ZT”L, Rosh Yeshivat Porat Yosef, who is matir the sheitel in his sefer Ohr L’Tzion. Rav Mutzafi stated Rav Abba Shaul was never matir a shteitel and he never wrote such a psak in his sefer.

Israel celebrating end of 'hostile' Obama regime

Fake News Becomes the Narrative: "Russia Hacked the Election"

I want to ask some questions about Vladimir Putin and his competence, because the Democrats and the Media are claiming that Putin involved himself in our election illegally. He interceded and his desire was for Trump to win. He wanted Trump and he wanted Hillary to lose.  

So I have some questions about some things from the WikiLeaks dump about Democrat meddling, Robert Creamer previously explained hiring -- at $1500 per person -- people to disrupt Trump rallies and cause violence.

Donna Brazile was giving the questions to Hillary in a series of debates.  But I have questions about this.  Did Vladimir Putin secretly persuade Hillary Clinton to take off most of August? 

Did Vladimir Putin tell Hillary, "You don't need to go to Wisconsin! You got it in the bag. You don't need to go to these Blue Wall states. You own them, Hillary! Don't waste your time. In fact, Hillary, you don't even need to campaign.  Just sit there and recuperate.  You don't need to even leave your house, Hillary." 

Did Vladimir Putin drug Hillary Clinton causing her to collapse into a van and have a seizure on 9/11?  Did Putin secretly tell Trump where to go and do his campaign right in the middle of the urban core?  Did Putin tell Trump to make a pitch for votes based on an economic message of jobs, jobs, jobs, and Make America Great Again?  Did Putin do all that?  Did Putin come up with Trump's campaign slogan?  Did Putin secretly cut a deal with that babe on Saturday Night Live to portray Hillary Clinton to Millennials as an unlikable, power-hungry, humorless, robot politician? 

Did Putin tell Trump, "Go out there and spend all kinds of money and hold all these rallies! You do all these rallies and just get thousands of people showing up at these rallies. You just keep shouting 'Make America Great Again! Make America Safe Again!'" 

 Did Putin secretly fund Robert Creamer?  Did he make Obama meet with Creamer and Black Lives Matter all those times in the White House?  Did Putin run out there and tell Democrat Party to base their election on transgender bathrooms and gay marriage and Black Lives Matter and the cops deserve to be shot and all the other things the Democrat Party stood for? 

Did Putin do that? 

Was Putin responsible for the campaign strategy of the Democrat Party?  

Was Vladimir Putin responsible for Donald Trump's campaign strategy?  

Did Putin secretly influence this election so Donald Trump would put a bunch of warrior generals in positions of high responsibility in the U.S. military?  

You're telling me that Vladimir Putin wants a bunch of George Patton-type people in our cabinet?  You're telling me that's what Vladimir Putin wanted and he cheated this election so that that's what Trump would do? 

Versus a woman who would continue the disarmament policies of her predecessor, Barack Hussein Obama, who thinks that the nuclear arsenal of the United States poses the greatest threat to freedom in the world and so we had to downsize?  

You think Putin wants a Trump and all these great military guys, or would he have preferred to have Hillary who was going to disarm the United States anyway?  

This Putin? I tell you, folks, he's one sneaky, ingenious SOB the way he pulled all this off!  He had to be a brilliant guy for the Clinton campaign to be so special kind of stupid the way they lost this election.

 Did Vladimir Putin tell Hillary Clinton to pile up all those votes in California and New York instead of focusing on electoral battleground states? 

When did Vladimir Putin tell Hillary Clinton to call half the country deplorables?  

Man, oh, man, oh, man.  What power Putin has!

Pastor heckles kids at TX mall: ‘There is no Santa!’

Christian children will now find out what Jewish Children knew all along!

Pastor Dave Grisham filmed himself Saturday standing in an Amarillo, Texas mall and heckling children as they waited in line to meet Santa.

He walked up to the line of families waiting to meet Santa and announced, “Kids, I want to tell you today that there is no such thing as Santa Claus. Santa Claus does not exist.”

The pastor, who said he was with “Last Frontier Evangelism,” then turned his focus to the parents.

“Parents, y’all need to stop lying to your children and telling them that Santa Claus is real, when in fact, he’s not.

“Don’t lie to your children and tell them there’s such thing as Santa, when you know in reality that there are no flying reindeer, there is no workshop of the North Pole, there is no elves making toys, that you buy all gifts and put them under tree. That’s all the truth!”

Grisham continued to walk back-and-forth near the line of families, as few turned to look at him — and even fewer were likely converted to his cause.

“That’s enough!” one person shouted.

Another parent eventually confronted him, repeatedly asking him to “Stop.”

But Grisham was relentless.

“Kids, there is no Santa! Santa’s not real!” he continued as other parents confronted him. He then walked away and stopped his recording.

Kupat Ha'Ir the dishonest Tzedaka Organization loses 15.6 million Dollars in stock investment

The Megurit housing fund has seen its stocks tumble in the three months since it went public, the Kikar Hashabbat Hebrew news website reported on Sunday. 

Stock prices fell 12% before the markets closed Sunday, and share prices have seen a slump of 14.2% over the past week.

Kupat Ha'ir, one of the largest haredi charities in Israel, that has been accused of fraud and deception, invested 60 million shekels ($15.6 million), or 24.9% of the fund's value. It has lost 6 million shekels ($1.5 million) to date. The burial society invested 40 million shekels ($10.4 million) and has lost million shekels to date.

According to Kikar Hashabbat, non-haredi institutions have also lost money after investing in the Megurit fund. The organization 'Excellence' and the Jewish National Fund have lost 4 million shekels each.

The Megurit fund announced Sunday morning that it would buy back many of the shares it sold off three months ago. The repurchases are meant to strengthen the value of the shares by reducing the percentage that is held by the public.

The Megurit fund is the first of its kind in Israel. It brings together smaller investors to pool larger amounts of money together and jointly purchase land around the country. the fund administers the land until it reaches profitability.

Amona ! Headache for Netanyahu?

I’m a South African Activist Who Used to Fight Against Israel—Until I Went There

Tshediso Mangope grew up under apartheid and believed that Israel had the same policies. But seeing the country for himself changed his perspective.

As a black South African and member of the African National Congress (ANC), I have often heard the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state—and therefore a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to be based on a single state of Palestine between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. 

I recently made a trip to Israel and the West Bank in order to understand the issues and the prospects for resolving the conflict.

Traveling through the country encouraged me to reflect upon the suggestions by some sections of the Palestine solidarity movement—particularly those advocating for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel—that it is possible to establish one country between Israel and Palestine based on a “one-state” solution, like the one we established here in South Africa.